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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Police have said repeatedly in the aftermath of Maine’s deadliest shooting that officers thought the gunmans family had been taking his weapons away.

Members of Robert Card's family broke their public silence Thursday to make emotional pleas for improvements to the Army, law enforcement and mental health systems that they say failed to help them in the months before he committed the state's deadliest mass shooting.

Robert Card's ex-wife and sister are speaking Thursday morning about how they tried to get him help for months before he killed 18 people in October.

Robert Card's family believes the search for the mass shooter "could have ended much sooner" if police heeded their advice.

A family member of the Army reservist who killed 18 people in Maine’s deadliest shooting said she and her husband told a deputy a month before the mass shooting that her brother-in-law still had access to weapons, despite his deteriorating mental health.

Members of Robert Card's family broke their public silence Thursday to make emotional pleas for improvements to the Army, law enforcement and mental health systems that they say failed to help them in the months before he committed the state's deadliest mass shooting.

The special state commission investigating the Lewiston mass shootings heard again Thursday from members of the shooter's Army Reserve unit.

The testimony was given to a state commission Thursday, six months after the rampage in Lewiston that killed 18 people and injured 13.

176 days, 25 officers: Police were repeatedly warned about Robert Card's erratic behavior, his weapons, and his threats. This is an account of those warnings.

Newly released footage from law enforcement in Maine shows officials were aware of growing concerns over the mental health state of the man accused of killing 18 people more than a month before the attack in October.